Market integration and room for development in Europe’s peripheries: Constraint or opportunity?

Roundtable Osteuropa

With László Bruszt, Julia Langbein and Vera Šćepanović

Participants:

László Bruszt (Central European University)

Julia Langbein (ZOiS)

Vera Šćepanović (Leiden University)

Langbein, Julia: Shallow market integration and weak developmental capacities: Ukraine’s pathway from periphery to periphery: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2019.1657477

Šćepanović, Vera: Transnational integration in Europe and the reinvention of industrial policy in Spain: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2019.1652670

Medve-Balint, Gergö & Šćepanović, Vera: EU funds, state capacity and the development of transnational industrial policies in Europe’s Eastern periphery: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2019.1646669

Bruszt, László & Karas, David: Diverging developmental strategies beyond “lead sectors” in the EU’s periphery: the politics of developmental alliances in the Hungarian and Polish dairy sectors: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2019.1646668

Music: “Complete” by Modul is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0-License.

Chapter

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Different integration strategies (00:03:00)

3. The problem with shallow integration (00:06:54)

4. The EU's early southern integration (00:10:00)

5. Why state capacities matter: The EU's Eastern Enlargment strategy (00:13:22)

6. The weaknesses of the EU post-accession approach (00:24:53)

7. General lessons for other parts of the world? (00:28:15)